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North Korean Missile Launches Don't Rattle U.S.
May 21, 2013 | Delivery SystemsThe U.S. Defense Department on Monday expressed little concern over North Korea's string of six short-range missing firings spread across three days, Reuters reported.
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West Using Chemical Warfare Assertions to Justify Attack: Assad
Western powers have lobbed chemical warfare accusations at the Syrian government in an attempt to justify military intervention in the country's 2-year-old civil war, Deutsche Presse-Agentur on Saturday quoted Syrian President Bashar Assad as saying.
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State Department Upgrading Security at Diplomatic Sites After Benghazi, Kerry Says
May 20, 2013 | Chris Schneidmiller | TerrorismWASHINGTON – The Obama administration is taking new steps to heighten the security for diplomatic personnel around the world, Secretary of State John Kerry said on Monday.
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U.K. Sees 'Persuasive' Evidence of Chemical Strikes by Assad
May 21, 2013 | Chemical Weapons UseThe United Kingdom is seeing additional "limited but persuasive" indicators of chemical weapons use by the Bashar Assad's regime in the Syrian civil war, British Foreign Secretary William Hague said in a speech reported on Monday by the London Telegraph.
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Myanmar Leader Affirms No-Nuke Stance
May 21, 2013 | Nuclear Nonproliferation, Arms Control, DisarmamentThe president of Myanmar on Sunday reaffirmed his position that the nation would never seek nuclear weapons, Kyodo News reported.
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Japan Could Restart Indian Atomic Trade Talks
Japan on Monday said it is mulling possible new discussions with India to hammer out a bilateral civilian nuclear power accord, Kyodo News reported.
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India to Tap Satellites as Missile Sensors
A new Indian initiative aims to harness national telecommunications satellites to watch for missile operations in an area spanning more than 3,700 miles, the Times of India reported on Sunday.
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GOP Lawmaker Defends Proposal for East Coast Interceptor Site
May 20, 2013 | Diane Barnes | Missile DefenseWASHINGTON -- A well-placed Republican lawmaker on Monday doubled down on calls from within his party to build a new missile defense site on the U.S. East Coast, arguing that such a facility would augment the country's capacity to respond to potential long-range missile strikes from Iran or North ...
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New Iran Penalties Must be 'Decisive': France
France on Friday said Iran's intransigence in a years-old nuclear standoff requires stringent U.S. and European economic penalties capable of settling the dispute, Agence France-Presse reported
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Issa Subpoenas Ambassador Pickering to Testify on Benghazi Report
May 20, 2013 | Charles S. Clark | TerrorismWASHINGTON -- In response to the recent refusal of retired Ambassador Thomas Pickering to agree to testify in private on the independent review he chaired on the September 2012 deaths of four Americans at the U.S. diplomatic post in Benghazi, Libya, a key House chairman has hit him with a ...
Quote of the Day
Former U.S. biodefense adviser Philip Russell, on ex-Navy Secretary Richard Danzig's push for U.S. government procurement of medical anthrax countermeasures while receiving money from a company that produced one such product.Holy smoke -- that was a horrible conflict of interest.
